LESSON 1
Text:Manners Here,Manners There 1
CONTENTS 1
LESSON 2
LESSON 3
LESSON 4
LESSON 5
LESSON 6
LESSON 7
LESSON 8
LESSON 9
LESSON 10
Grammar:Absolute Construction 10
Learning To Write:List Ideas 16
Reading Practice 20
1.Mind Your Mamers 20
2.The Pleasures of Eating 22
Text:The Little People 26
Grammar:Adverbial Clauses 34
Learning To Write:Order Ideas 42
Reading Practice 45
1.Talking Drums 45
2.Gypsies 47
Text:Soccer s Wild Cup Scramble 52
Grammar:Adverbial Subordinators 62
Learning To Write:Topic Sentence 70
1.A Truly Australian Sport 73
Reading Practice 73
2.Soccer And American Football 76
Text:Sleepwalking——Fact or Fancy? 81
Grammar:Nominal ClausesⅠ(that-clauses) 90
Learning To Write:Unity 97
1.Why We Walk in Circles 101
Reading Practice 101
2.The Strange People 103
Text:American Political Parties 107
Grammar:Nominal ClausesⅡ(wh-interrogative clauses) 117
Learning To Write:Coherence(1) 124
Reading Practice 131
1.Running for Governor 131
2.The Election of the American President 134
Text:Needed:An International Language 138
Grammar:Nominal ClausesⅢ(nominal relative clauses) 149
Learning To Write:Coherence(2) 156
1.English World-Wide 161
Reading Practice 161
2.The Whistle Language of La Gomera 163
Text:The Bright Side of Pessimism 167
Grammar:Relative Clauses 178
Learning To Write:Build Support 187
Reading Practice 191
1.And It Happens 191
2.Little Whirly 192
Text:The Giants of Easter Island 195
Grammar:Relative Conjunctions 205
Learning To Write:Introduction 211
Reading Practice 215
1.Strange Statues 215
2.The Cardiff Giant 216
3.The Stone of Kensington 218
Text:The First Ecologists 220
Grammar: The Uses of It 230
Learning To Write:Conclusion 238
Reading Practice 243
1.Pollution Is a Dirty Word 243
2.What s In an Indian Name? 246
3.Life Among the Aztecs 248
Text:Pompeii 253
Grammar:The Uses of As 264
Learning To Write:Composition 272
Reading Practice 278
1.Backyard Volcano 278
2.Who s Afraid 279
3.Tame Volcanoes 281
GLOSSARY 285
APPENDIX 319
Irregular Verbs 319